Rick Wilson: The Mueller Report is the Tip of a Big, Slimy, Trump-Shaped Iceberg

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-mueller-report-is-the-tip-of-a-big-slimy-trump-shaped-iceberg

Trump is the god of projection, our umber O.J. Simpson, taunting and winking at the audience, writing his own version of “If I Did It” with every tweet. Familial omerta and tribal protection are more valuable than gold. He proves a case darker than just campaign collusion with moments like Helsinki and Paris where we clearly see who is the master and who is the servant in the Trump-Putin relationship. Spoiler: it’s Vlad holding the leash.

Trump's allies have been trying to discredit Mueller for two years, and they saw this release as a complete vindication of their theory that it wasn't Donald Trump and the Russians conspiring but the nefarious, imaginary deep state.

Trump and his friends at Fox have led a constant drumbeat that it's vital now to investigate the investigators, to track down those dastardly deep staters. That’s the next major turn of the public messaging strategy on the part of Fox, and the louder that is, the more you know the details of the Mueller report are hitting home.

It won’t matter to the MAGA yokel crowd and the QAnon loons, but what we’ll see from the report will be the serious men and women from the SCO, FBI, DOJ and intel community facing up to urgent national security threats and rampant obstruction, not a rabid pack of partisan Democrats chasing Trump and his blameless allies. Instead of a witch hunt, we’ll see almost certainly be able to understand this was a fine-grained, highly professional investigation of the leads that generated over a broad, well-sourced, and fully-justified effort.

We’ve already had a glance into the scuzzy, sleazy behavior of a triumvirate of Trump’s close advisors, including Michael Cohen, Roger Stone and Paul Manafort from the Mueller investigation. We’ll see more, and it won’t be pretty.

In many ways, this 400-page redaction is the tip of a big, slimy iceberg. Mueller was a cagey player from the start, and he likely gamed out scenarios where Trump would try to derail the course of justice. The dispersal of cases out to the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the Eastern District of Virginia, and the DC US Attorney means he built a legal hydra resistant to interference and decapitation. Those cases are ongoing, and like a minefield, still dangerous to Trump and his cronies.

The media, who never fail to get pranked by the Trump enterprise, the sense that the Russia story is over, done, kaput, and that Trump emerged unscathed will get a mountain of new leads, new storylines, and new evidence. Congress will have more work than it can handle when it comes to their job in his case, and if this game of redaction and coverup doesn’t shake the Democrats into sudden, vicious action, nothing can save them.

[Grasswire2]

1. sudden, vicious action.

Apparently it's now up to us to demand it of our representatives.

[babylonsister]

2. This I loved...

It won’t matter to the MAGA yokel crowd and the QAnon loons, but what we’ll see from the report will be the serious men and women from the SCO, FBI, DOJ and intel community facing up to urgent national security threats and rampant obstruction, not a rabid pack of partisan Democrats chasing Trump and his blameless allies. Instead of a witch hunt, we’ll see almost certainly be able to understand this was a fine-grained, highly professional investigation of the leads that generated over a broad, well-sourced, and fully-justified effort.

[Hekate]

3. Rick Wilson always knows whereof he speaks when it comes to Trump, the GOP, and insider shenanigans

Nothing has changed about Mueller having created a many headed hydra. Nothing. It won't be "over" just because Trump and Enablers say so. It won't be "over" just because Dems and DUers flail and say we were "betrayed" by Mueller.